1864.] 441 



The following communication was read from Mr. Tryon Reakirt : — 

 " In the Proceedings of the Society, for September, I described three 

 new species, temporarily placed in the genus Limacodes : two of these, 

 L. viriJiis and L. Lorquini, belong to the genus Parasa, Moore, 

 Nesera, Herrich-Schiiffer, being preoccupied by a genus of Diptera) : 

 also, upon further examination, I find that the % and 9 of P. Lorqnini, 

 are in reality two distinct species, both 9 . 



To the supposed male of that species, I will now give the name of 

 P. zulona : we then have 

 Parasa Lorquini, Reakirt. 

 Parasa zulona, nov. sp. 



L. Lorqnini % . Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. III. p. 250. (Sept. 1864). 

 Parasa viride, Reakirt, (olim viridus). 

 in place of the two former species. 



Species No. 3, of my former paper, L. minuta may very properly be 

 separated from that genus, and erected into a new one, Kronsea. hav- 

 ing the following generic characters. 



KRON^EA, nov. gen. 

 Body, slender ; proboscis not visible ; palpi, porrect, slender, ex- 

 tending a little beyond the head; first joint, short j third, elongate, 

 acute ; antennae, simple in both sexes, double the length of the thorax; 

 abdomen, extending slightly beyond the hind wings; legs, very slen- 

 der, naked ; hind tibite, furnished with three rather long spurs. 



Fore wings, sub-triangular; costal margin nearly straight; slightly 

 rounded at the apex ; interior angle, sharp ; outer margin not quite so 

 long as the inner ; second inferior vein a little further from the third 

 than the first; third a little further from the fourth than from the 

 second. Hind wings, obovate. 

 Kronaea minuta, Reakirt. 



L. minuta, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. III. p. 251. (Sept. 1864.)" 



The following Papers were presented for publication in the Pro- 

 ceedings ; — 



" Descriptions of certain species of Diurnal Lepidoptera, found within 

 the limits of the United States and British America, No. 4, by A\'m. 

 H. Edwards." 



" Notes upon the variation of sexes in Argynnis Diana, by H. W. 

 Bates, of London, England." 



